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Word: objectional (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
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...perhaps it takes an eccentric farmer to object to paving. A hard road, well maintained, would reduce a working farmer's work, make it easier from him to bring crops and dairy cans and livestock to market. Maybe it is offensively yuppie of me to sit out here wiping dust off my computer screen and hoarding my elite seclusion. (On the other hand, I pay honestly for it by driving two and a half hours if I want to go to the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Disappearing Fast — the Joy of a Dirt Road | 9/6/2000 | See Source »

...object of Seaman is to take care of a slimy, sinister creature that looks like a fish with a human face and that will return the favor by verbally abusing you. Oh, yeah, Seaman also features a voice-over narration by Leonard Nimoy (Star Trek's Mr. Spock). It's just about the weirdest experience you're ever likely to have in front of your television...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish and Quips | 9/4/2000 | See Source »

...keeping out] these very specific faces I found that it was a little bit easier to keep the story oriented around the main character. You have to balance a general and a specific in a comic strip. "Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Q and A With Comicbook Master Chris Ware | 9/1/2000 | See Source »

Klebanov never truly let go of the collision theory, saying the sub hit a "huge, heavy object" of "very large tonnage" that tore open the boat's hull. But he offered no suggestions about what that might have been, and there were no reports of a surface ship in the area with severe hull damage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Fatal Dive | 8/28/2000 | See Source »

...least until after the election, and where the market goes from here is no longer up to Greenspan. Investors could get back to focusing on earnings reports and profit forecasts, although mental knots over news like that produced a very dispirited July for NASDAQ. Or the next object of suspense could be the Time Warner-AOL merger decision, due in the fall from the FCC, which could set the regulatory climate for at least the next year (Time Warner, of course, is parent of this site). Or even the election, as Monday's damage-control dance continues with Gore sounding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fed's Out; See You in November | 8/22/2000 | See Source »

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